Gutted boxer Charlie Flynn: ‘head butt’ draw was a sickener

Craig Goldthorp

Carluke-born lightweight boxing ace Charlie Flynn suffered yet more agony on Saturday night, when he made his return to the ring after 11 months out injured.

The 23-year-old Commonwealth Games gold medallist suffered a deep gash above his left eye after a clash of heads in the third round of his Celtic title fight against Ryan Collins at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro.

This meant that the bout was declared a technical draw.

And Flynn later blasted Collins, with the former Royal Mail sorting office worker insisting that the Irvine scrapper has a history of heatbutting during fights.